Service Book and Hymnal (SBH): 41 Years later
but it was determined that it would be able to be learned faster in unison. Regina reworked the compositions so that they would sing in unison capacity with ease. Many people who knew Regina thought that the things that happened in her life emerged in her music. She was a very positive, smiling person, but behind that smile lived a person who had survived tragedy and managed to live on. The Fryxells had lost two of their sons to tragic accidents, and many feel these tragedies and pain reflected in the richness of Regina's compositions.
So successful was Setting Two, that the melodies were retained for the LBW Setting Three. People today can even recite her melodies from memory. The fact that she wanted us to know our Lutheran heritage was successful, and many learned where pieces of the liturgy came from, and could identify with them also. Most of all, Regina's melodies hit the heart and made you feel that you were going through a journey through time. They also enhanced people's faith toward the God they worshiped and loved.
Setting Two was known as the "Continental Setting," because it featured music from continental Northern Europe. Every piece that Regina crafted had a history to it from the Lutheran past. The Gloria Patri was derived from using the German and Augustana versions. Three versions for the Kyrie were offered, with the first two from Regina. She adapted the old Orbis Factor Kyrie that was used in the Swedish traditions, and this even wound up in the LBW. The second version came from Bohemian Lutherans. The Gloria in Excelsis was a masterpiece, a version that was based from the early Lutheran church and pastor Nicklaus Decius in 1539. The Gloria came from an old Easter Gloria that was derived from a Latin mass in the Roman Catholic Church. Decius, a friend of Luther, had used it in his early German masses.
The "Alleluias" were derived from Prussian (Poland) and Roman Catholic sources. The second "Alleluia" was derived from a Latin Sanctus in the De Angelis mass. Many sources of the liturgy were interpreted from the Swedish Mass Book of 1942. What was published in the communion sections was also featured in the communion sections of First Setting. Regina reworked the Bach Sanctus from 1725 that had been a Lutheran mainstay for hundreds of years. Her version of it inspired Ronald A. Nelson when he
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